Author Cora Webb, Nursing Clio

Cora Webb is a graduating senior at the College of Charleston majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and Public Health. A member of the Women’s Health Research Team, she is also the recipient of the 2017 College of Charleston Excel Award for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. After graduation, she hopes to enroll in a graduate women’s and gender studies program.

“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in the 1960s and early 1970s, this woman in her 60s, an oral history narrator,...